Friday, March 31st 2023
7pm - rosie's bar
Opening Session with Dick Miles & Friends
Join Dick Miles and local musicians for the opening session of the weekend. All musicians welcome!
8pm - ballydehob community hall
festival all-star concert
with
BREAKING TRAD
Breaking Trad is made up of Dónal Murphy (Accordion), David Doocey (Fiddle), and Mike Galvin (Guitar/Vocals).
Dónal Murphy has performed at the festival with Four Men and a Dog on many occasions and this year he’s back with “Breaking Trad”. Dónal is originally from Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick and is a winner of countless All-Ireland titles.
David Doocey, from Foxford, Co. Mayo has travelled with numerous bands and is a previous winner of the coveted Fiddler of Oriel trophy.
Mike Galvin has a vast experience of working in different genres from rock and roll to Irish traditional music.
Their music has been described as ‘Dazzling’, ‘Unorthodox and Unique’.
9.30pm
festival session trail
IRish whip
Alan Finn (Musician in Residence) with Joanne Quirke and Friends
Rosie's bar
Maria Cotter, Pat Fleming & Maeve McSweeney
sandboat bar
Simon Crehan, Fionn O’Hanlon, Matt Bashford & Conor Daly
THURSDAY, March 30th 2023
8pm - LEVIS'S CORNER HOUSE
Opening FESTIVAL GIG with DANNY DIAMOND & BRIAN MILLER
This performance by Danny and Brian Miller (Bua, The Lost Forty) brings together two of the top Irish traditional/folk musicians in the US. Their soulful and compelling live performances run the gamut from sensitive waltzes to tearaway reels, punctuated by impeccable arrangements of newly-unearthed traditional songs.
saturday, April 1st 2023
12pm - working artists studio
The Given Note - Morning of Poetry and Song with
paul Ó Colmáin & Special Guests.
Paul is a poet, musician and visual-artist and co-director of Working Artist’s Studios. He has published a book of poetry, a children’s story and six music albums. All are welcome to attend and the Working Artists Studio to contribute a poem or song to the session.
try the uilleann pipes
10am - bank house
Na Píobairí Uilleann in collaboration with Ballydehob Trad Festival
and Cork Pipers' Club will be holding a 'Try the Pipes' event on
Saturday 1st April in the Bank House, Ballydehob from 10am-12pm.
This event gives an opportunity for those interested or curious about the uilleann pipes to come along and try them out for free with an experienced teacher and uilleann piper. This is a free event and all ages are welcome. Tuition will be provided on the day by Cork uilleann pipers Eoin Ó Riabhaigh and Muireann Ní Shé.
There will also be a Piper’s Chair where local pipers and musicians will encouraged to share a tune or two.
11.15am - working artists studio
A Festival of Fools with Michéal.
2.00pm - working artists studio
port béil
(mouth music)
The launch of a new animated music video by Paul Ó Colmáin and Colm Rooney featuring Paul's tunes, mouth music and illustrations.
Two new polkas, "Timpeall an Tí" and "Seachain an Drisiúr" make the soundtrack for a humorous couple of minutes.
The launch will be at 2.00pm Saturday 1st April and continue during the day.
AFTERNOON SESSION TRAIL
Rosie's bar
4PM
Sandra Walsh & Special Guests
sandboat bar
5PM
Mary Crowley & John Connelly
6.15pm - working artist's studio
An Evening of Spoken Word & Music from Thaddeus Ó Buachalla and Friends
Poet and composer Thaddeus Ó Buachalla is an exciting new voice. His début novel EL echoes the work of Umberto Eco in its bizarre fusion of science fantasy and historical fiction. Today he will read from his new work Immram an Phréacháin, a surreal journey through Cork City by two pals at night, with musical accompaniment from Sam Uí Bhuachalla (harp), Moze Jacobs (clarinet and sax) and Paul McMahon (guitar and banjo).
Traditional singing workshop with
elle marie o'dwyer - €10
2pm - bank house
Elle Marie O’Dwyer is from Freemont, Co Cork and has been involved in Traditional Singing from a young age. Elle Marie’s unique voice has helped her to become one of the best known young singers in the country at the moment.
Elle Marie has won many All- Ireland singing titles and has toured nationally and internationally. She has released three solo CD’s and has performed with Sean Keane, Cherish the Ladies and the High Kings
8pm - LEVIS CORNER HOUSE
concert with
eva coyle & friends
Eva Coyle is a Folk Artist based in West Cork. Her style is a blend of Folk Indie with roots of Irish Traditional Music. The launch of her debut album in May 2023 followed a small national tour, some of which she played the Word Stage
at Electric Picnic and Whelan’s Trad Folk Fest. The album features
collaborations with John Blek, Bean Dolan, John Williams of Solas, Katie Grennan and renowned Swedish Folk guitarist Mattias Pérez. Eva’s music has been featured more prominently in Sweden and the UK with Folk Radio UK and BBC sounds quoting Mark Radcliffe ‘I adore Eva’s sound and can’t wait to hear more’ BBC sounds Folk Show. She is working on some new material and preparing for a tour with Mattias Pérez in Sweden this coming Autumn.
9.30pm
festival session trail
sandboat bar
Alan Finn (Musician in Residence) with Joanne Quirke and Friends
Rosie's bar
Clíona Halley and Darragh Carey-Kennedy
irish whip
Ciarán French, Hannah Collins, Donagh McElligot and Friends
8pm - ballydehob community hall
festival all-star concert
with
GOITSE
The popular and multi-award-winning quintet Goitse was forged in the white-hot creative crucible of Limerick’s World Academy.
The group includes Áine McGeeney (Fiddle/Vocals), Colm Phelan (Bodhran), Conal O’Kane (Guitar), Danny Collins (Piano Accordion, Keyboard) and Alan Reid (Banjo).
Goitse has released six critically acclaimed recordings and maintains a year-round touring schedule that includes performances throughout Ireland and the UK, Germany, France and the United States.
Together, the quintet Goitse make what Irish Music Magazine calls ‘Music that’s brimming with energy and creative zeal’.
Who would want to be a fool in this day and age!?
Micheál is relearning the art of fooling, a sort of messenger for the inner world that resides in all of us.
Can we look see be and fly to a place where our dreams can be realised (with real eyes)? It's impossible surely or maybe I'mPossible!
sunday, April 2nd 2023
12.00pm
the village heritage walk
starting from the bank house
Join local historian Eugene McSweeney for a fascinating free walking tour through the history of Ballydehob village
1.00pm
school's art competition
aisling gallery
(upstairs rosie's bar)
JThe artwork of the local school children will be on display in the Aisling Gallery during the weekend and the prizewinners will be presented with their awards at 1pm on Sunday, April 2nd.
The Dylan Camier Perpetual Trophy will be presented to the Best Overall School
2pm - rosie's bar
lunchtime concert with
ger o'donnell & maria ryan
Maria Ryan, violinist, fiddle player and singer from Pallasgreen in Co. Limerick, is an alumnus of Cork School of Music (CIT), where she co-founded the highly acclaimed music ensemble Strung. In recent times she has also toured internationally with Galician piper Carlos Nuñez, played with Crash Ensemble and the Irish National Opera. But nowhere is she more comfortable than in this folk collaboration with singer and multi-instrumentalist Ger O’ Donnell.
Ger O’Donnell, multi-instrumentalist, singer, music educator, arranger, was born in Limerick. His musical journey has led him through fife and drum bands to classical flute to rock bands to his current focus on strings and voice in folk arrangements. Long before lockdowns, his online collaborations with singers and instrumentalists, have garnered him a huge and loyal following. His collaborations with Maria Ryan have struck some of the deepest chords.
irish whip
2.30pm
Youth Session featuring local young musicians
levis' bar
2.00pm
Trad Session with Pat Fleming & Maria Cotter
sandboat bar
4pm
Alan Finn (Musician in Residence)
& Friends
2.30pm - ballydehob community hall
festival céilí
music: hughie kennedy & tony corbett
tickets: €10 (at the door)
afternoon session trail
6.00pm - rosie's bar
farewell session with mary crowley & john connelly
All musicians welcome to join in for this final session of the weekend
8.00pm - levis' corner house
finale festival Concert with
JOSHUA BURNSIDE
Joshua Burnside is an experimental folk songwriter, singer and producer. He takes influence from alternative electronica and Irish traditional song heritages, chopping and blending them with a mixture of found sounds, world music and unorthodox production methods.
“Joshua Burnside is the best songwriter in Ireland right now, and probably beyond” – Phil Taggart, Sirius XM
“He creates a world and lets us live in it for a while… He’s like going to the theatre” – Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
9.00PM - IRISH WHIP